Fritz Pregl

Fritz Pregl
Born(1869-09-03)3 September 1869
Died13 December 1930(1930-12-13) (aged 61)
Graz, Styria, Austria
NationalityAustria-Hungary
Alma materUniversity of Graz
Occupation(s)Graz circuit forensic chemist (1907)
Dean of the Graz University Medical Faculty (1916-1917)
Vice Chancellor of Graz University (1920-1921)
Known forMicroelemental analysis
AwardsLieben Prize (1914)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1923)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, medicine
InstitutionsUniversity of Graz, University of Innsbruck
Doctoral advisorAlexander Rollett[citation needed]

Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.